Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.


Thomas Szas

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But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
God who gave us life gave us liberty. 1 Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristoc...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but i...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our house...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn fro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Jefferson was against any needless official apparel, but if the gown was to carry, he said: For Heav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helples...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has ...
THOMAS GUTHRIE
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supportin...
THOMAS PAINE
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will...
THOMAS PAINE
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To...
THOMAS PAINE
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm ...
THOMAS MERTON
Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens h...
THOMAS NASH
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by re...
THOMAS MERTON
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS
Every man loves what he is good at.
THOMAS SHADWELL
Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
THOMAS WOLFE